Synonyms for incur
ɪnˈkɜrin·cur

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1. incurverb

   To render somebody liable or subject to.

   Synonyms:
   occasion

2. incurverb

   Synonyms:
   contract, encounter

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1. incur

   Synonyms:
   meet, run

   Antonyms:
   avoid, shun, elude, escape

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1. incurverb

   make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to

   "People who smoke incur a great danger to their health"

   Synonyms:
   obtain, find, receive, get

2. receive, get, find, obtain, incurverb

   receive a specified treatment (abstract)

   "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"

   Synonyms:
   pick up, make, mystify, experience, develop, draw, have, find oneself, become, sustain, receive, retrieve, scram, prevail, amaze, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, hold, go, rule, fix, stick, pay back, regain, happen, suffer, feel, beat, set about, get down, get under one's skin, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, stupefy, start, welcome, arrest, meet, witness, bring, bewilder, see, mother, chance, take, buzz off, catch, let, come up, obtain, beget, puzzle, flummox, invite, ascertain, get, generate, capture, find, baffle, produce, get hold, start out, pose, vex, aim, induce, find out, perplex, recover, bump, notice, gravel, begin, fetch, father, determine, commence, discover, encounter, arrive, set out, convey, acquire, come, line up, pay off, detect, bugger off, cause, take in, observe, nonplus

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1. incurverb

   Synonyms:
   contract, become liable to, become subject to

2. incurverb

   Synonyms:
   bring on

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1. List of paraphrases for "incur":

   hire, engage, assume

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1. Brian Ginsberg:

   The law has changed, yes. But the retrospective historical fact of whether the NRA and its members did or did not incur compensatory damages has not changed, they could have done that in their initial complaint. They didn't do it. They could have done it in their first amended complaint. They didn't … Nor did they attempt … in their proposed second amended complaint.

2. John McDonnell:

   There should be no sales of RBS shares, full-stop. But because of this government's obsession with privatization, the taxpayers who bailed out the bank will now incur an enormous loss.

3. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   The Palestinians're pushing civilians – women, children – into the line of fire with a view of getting casualties. We try to minimize casualties. The Palestinians're trying to incur casualties in order to put pressure on Israel, which is horrible.

4. Virginia Canter:

   It's hard to say if you're a clear winner or not just depending whether you come into the government, whether your selling would actually incur capital gains, whether it will allow you to diversity a portfolio of holdings that would otherwise be very concentrated.

5. Sarah Long:

   It would be a mistake to be giving booster doses without both some information about number one : Do they boost ? And a little bit of safety data, so that we would have some idea that there would be benefit of the booster before we might incur unknown risk.